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U of I Extension to host McHenry County Gardenfest April 10 Lisa Maier of the McHenry County Audubon Society will offer tips to attract birds to your garden. Daily Herald file photo Liz Cardella, owner of Collie Flower Farm, a 4-acre cut flower farm in Woodstock, will talk about Growing Your Own Bouquets. Daily Herald Archives Learn how you can use hydroponics to grow a wide variety of vegetables and flowers with McHenry County College s Rich Tobiasz. Daily Herald file photo
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Earn your green thumb while in pajamas at the virtual 2021 McHenry County Gardenfest, to be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 10, via Zoom. You will learn about new garden trends, plants and techniques at this half-day-long series of garden seminars.
The Rockefeller Foundation and the Food System Vision Prize Jan. 7, ahead of the first-ever United Nationsâ Food Systems Summit, announced its top 10 âVisionariesâ who offer solutions to complex food system challenges, including two India-based efforts.
The visionaries â named across six categories: environment, diets, economics, culture, technology and policy â will each be awarded $200,000 in recognition of their bold ideas for tackling some of the worldâs most pressing food systems challenges.
Among the winners were India-based Arakunomics and Eat Right.
Focusing on the regions of Araku, Wardha, and New Delhi, India, the Arakunomics vision empowers tribal communities and seeks to ensure environmental sustainability, fair profits for farmers, and food and nutrition security for all, according to the release.
Wageningen Team Awarded Top Visionary Title For Their Vision For The Dutch Food System 2050
Wageningen researchers Imke de Boer, Evelien de Olde, Kawire Gosselink and their team have been selected as one of the top 10 “Visionaries of the prestigious international Food System Vision Prize. Their team shared a holistic vision of a healthy and circular food system in the Netherlands in 2050, entitled ‘Re-rooting the Dutch Food System; from more to better’. The 10 winners will each be awarded $200,000 in recognition of their bold ideas for tackling some of the world’s most pressing food systems challenges.
The Food System Vision Prize was launched by the American Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with SecondMuse and OpenIDEO. Over 1300 teams from around the world submitted their vision for a healthy and regenerative food system in a region of their choice for the year 2050.
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New York, January 7, 2021 – Ahead of the first-ever United Nations’ Food Systems Summit, the Food System Vision Prize announced its top 10 “Visionaries” who offer solutions to complex food system challenges across six categories: environment, diets, economics, culture, technology, and policy. These winners will each be awarded $200,000 in recognition of their bold ideas for tackling some of the world’s most pressing food systems challenges.
The Food System Vision Prize is sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation and powered by SecondMuse and OpenIDEO. Winners were selected from a pool of more than 1,300 applicants from 119 countries who responded to the prize’s call for researchers, nonprofits, businesses, governments, and other groups focused on food system-related challenges to submit ambitious and attainable plans for regenerative, nourishing food systems by the year 2050.